Is sexual harassment really when a man just glances at a women in a way that can make her uncomfortable. Riophe claims that this is making women into a being that walks on eggshells and can not strive in society along with men. Women are the ones that are giving men the power over themselves. There are lots of top-level executives and politicians who are women and they have earned the respect of their male counterparts. These women surely can handle themselves among the male population or will women always have to be the proverbial weaker…
I was appointed as a women rights Ambassador for UN Women four months ago. And, the more I spoke about feminism, the more I realized that fighting for women’s rights has too often become man-hating. If there is one thing I know for certain, it is that this has to stop.…
“It was the women who shouldered the double burden of racial and gender discrimination” (Vargas, pg. 336). Machismo is a strong attribution to being a Chicano, hence when woman comes into the picture it disrupts the “balance. “ Chicano power figured in the shaping of the Chicana liberation movement and radical feminism; particularly the refusal of many pointedly sexist male leaders to consider women or women’s interests”, hence sparking the Chicana movement during the civil rights movement (Vargas, pg 308). Chicanas was often attacked for not being “obedient” while at the same time criticized for not indulging in freedom. An example of this is “Chicanas suffered guilt at not contributing to the household income of their families and social pressures to get married” (Blackwell, pg.62) Many Chicanas wanted to be their own independent person before being joined in marriage while others did not want to at all. When Chicana feminism started during the civil rights movement, they strove for equal rights, child care for those actively participating, reproductive health care and higher education (Romero, Nov 16th). By not including Chicana feminism to being Chicano, gave the opportunity for men to believe themselves superior to women. “They organized themselves as a direct result of blatant contradictions between male leadership and women’s secondary…
For instance, Paglia talks about Marilyn Monroe and her music video “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend”, where she portrays a plethora of men in tuxes doing the conga. The author uses this example to portray how the feminists are completely oblivious to the sexual influence women have on men (581). She goes on to say that women must learn from these experiences, so that in the near future they will not occur again. Camille Paglia says that too many women are running to campus committees complaining about their situations, instead of taking matters into their own hands. She proposed that instead of sulking over the situation, women should address the altercation on the spot. For instance, Paglia urges women to respond with an assertive attitude, such as, “Shut up, you jerk! And go crawl back to your barnyard where you belong!”…
“Feminist criticism derives from a critique of a history of oppression, in this case the history of women’s inequality” (Mays 2347). Women have always been second to men in mostly everything they are competing in. Even if the man and woman have the exact same job, the man is probably making more money just because he is a man. Women barely got the chance to vote less than fifty years ago! Women still have a long way to go to catch up where the men are, because men have always had a say in how to do things, and the woman would just agree about what he had said. Feminist are here to change all of that though. With protests showing women are equally compatible to do the same thing as men can do. “One of the first disciplines…
These models provide different lenses to see the intersection of multiple forms of oppression. Women are exposed to violence in home, sexual assault, sexual harassment and corporate violence. As a result, women experiences a wide range of health impacts as a consequence of violence including direct physical consequences of inquiry and sexual abuse, long term consequences of stress and mental and emotional abuse. So, steps needs to be taken to prevent violence against women by understanding the women’s diversity and drawing attention to the ways, where people in positions of professional privilege and power have potential to either reproduce and reinforce, or resist and oppose…
Sexism is the root of many evils. Sexism encourages women to take jobs that often do not make men question how powerful they are. Women who back down from challenges that men set are this powerful in a workplace are what drives sexism. When women decide to live up to the challenge they are faced with harassment, lower pay wages, and gendered discrimination. When men are this powerful in a workplace they take that power and exert it at home. This leads to the evil of domestic violence and even rape. Julia Alvarez addresses the couple of societal evils, sexism and domestic violence.…
Davis points out that not all feminists are taking the concept of sexism so casually and also…
Baker, Carrie N. “Race, Class, and Sexual Harassment in the 1970s.” Feminist Studies, Spring 2004, Vol. 30 Issue 1; EBSCOhost: Ashford Univ. Library…
Ever since women were given suffrage and more generally equal rights, there has been a rise of women in the common work places. Unfortunately, much of the business and high power corporations within the United States are under a patriarchy and women don’t get much of the power and pay as men do. Furthermore, women in the workplace just become “eye candy” or even objects of sexual fantasies for the men who hire them or for the men who work with or around them. Though women have fought to be equal along the side men, they continue to struggle in their everyday lives to match the power and pay that their male counterparts receive without any extra effort. However, in some rare cases, women have a subtle yet influential power. Unfortunately, this “power” is a double edged sword. On one side, the women can use their sexuality to gain power or use as a source of power. And on the other side, women who use their sexuality for gain is seen to be disrespectful, unprofessional, and pointless to the struggle of equalizing themselves to men.…
This article focuses on “girl watching” within the workplace as a debatable form of sexual harassment. One of the most important findings within sexual harassment is the ambiguity in actually defining specific acts of this common issue. For me, I have always felt uncomfortable with the looks and sounds some men may give me while out in public or my workplace specifically which is why I can relate to this article. Some men claim that women are too sensitive or that they often misconstrue men’s intentions. Some women claim that men just “don’t get it.” In-depth interviews were conducted with 43 employed men and women to examine a particular social practice of “girl watching” as a way to understand these gender differences. Girl watching is still…
Females are underestimated to be vulnerable targets of sexual assault because of their gender and physique, according to a report "women and girls are the vast majority of sexually abused victims: nearly 1 in 5 women – or nearly 22 million – have been raped in their lifetimes, majority of the abuses being unreported" (Black, 2011). Through the viewpoint of a liberal feminist, men’s use of sexual force needs to be understood as a means of oppression and appropriation given by all men in order to subdue the fear of women; alongside it is the expression of male property rights over women (Domenico, n.d.). Similarly, females are constantly victimized as the main targets of intensifying sexual assaults. A stereotype would be "victim blaming", if the victim does not directly refuse/behaves flirtatiously and encouragingly/consumes alcohol/dresses provocatively/has numerous sexual partners it is assumed that ‘a female is at fault’ for showcasing her privilege to indulge in human activities (Hilt, 2014). “Unreported sexual assault [is] reconceptualized as a mechanism for maintaining male…
But there is still so much discrimination out there against women out there”. (Feminism Today 2) “In 2010 a study conducted for springer’s journal of law and human behavior concluded that 90% of women have suffered sexual discrimination in the workplace including offensive sexist remarks or being told they could not do their job properly due to that they are a women”. (Feminism…
When the Hate Crime Statistics Act was passed, signed into law and reauthorized, it did not include hate crimes against women as a class (The Leadership Conference ). Since there is no official inclusion of gender-based crimes associated with the Hate Crime Statistics Act, the statistics and tracking of increase or decrease of these crimes are not apart of federal law or the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) of hate crime and remain unknown (Criminal Justice). However, there are still various hate crimes committed against women everyday which include: murder, rapes and various types of domestic violence.…
Dear Ms Valenti, I am writing to you regarding your article for the Guardian entitled ‘Feminists Don’t Hate Men. But It Wouldn’t Matter If We Did’. In it you explain why misandry has no real effect on men whereas misogyny can be fatal, and you go on justify so called “ironic misandry” as simply a joke made by frustrated feminists. However, I believe that your argument is undermined by your disregard for the effects of ‘man-hating’, your simplistic approach to the issue and the inherent contradiction between wanting equality yet condoning a hatred of men. First, you seem to be under the impression that “when women hate men [they] hurt their feelings” but in contrast “when men hate women they kill [them]”. However, ‘man-hating’ is proven to…